If you want to hear a woman say, “Every fascist must meet death” quite a few times, this book (and audiobook) are for you! I am not generally a fan of military history, but this story is gripping. It is also very interesting to compare the history of my country (USA) to Russian history. Of course the author wanted to show Stalin’s Russia in a good light, but as she comments on segregation and the American journalists’ preoccupation with her femininity, we can see that US exceptionalism is a myth.